Radiator-guard



P. S. WARMAN.

RADIATOR GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2-1. 1911:.

1 ,306, 363 Patented J une 10J919.

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FUNDAMENTAL YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

RADIATOR-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patente une 10, 1919.

Application filed May 24, 1918. Serial N o. 236,289.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERCY S. VVARMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in He, county of Union, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new' and use- Improvements in Radiator-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates in general to guards for the radiators of automobiles and more especially to the means for fastening such guards in lace.

Guards of this character are provided to protect the radiators of cars against damage from collision. Consequently, since these guards functioning as they do to withstand forces of considerable magnitude, due to the momentum of the car, aside from the inherent strength and rigidity required of such guards, the strength and resisting power required of the guard fastening means to meet the aforesaid forces become a matter of great moment. In order to meet the great resisting power demanded of such fastening means, the time and expense in properly fastening such guards in place, and the consequent loss due to the idleness of the car, heretofore involved, actually raised these guards to the dignity of a luxury.

To this end the present invention aims to provide a guard and the fastening means therefor the relation of the several parts of which permit of the rapid and expeditious attachment thereof on a car without in any way impairing the resisting efiiciency of the guard.

The present invention further eontem plates fastening means for a guard of the character aforesaid, for which no permanent attachment to the chassis is required, thereby saving the consequent time and labor involved in making such permanent attachment.

These and other features, capabilities and advantages of the invention will appear from the subjoined detail description of one specific embodiment thereof, illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which- Figure 1 is a, fragmental perspwtive of the guard attachment in place on a car.

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same.

Fig. 3 is a fragmental detail of the fastening means.

In the embodiment illustrated, 10 designates the chassis of the automobile on which the radiator 11 is secured in the usual manner, and to the front of which is mounted the guard 12. The front of the chassis 10 in the present instance as shown in Fig. 2 has a belly portion 13 and diminished end portions 14.

The guard 12 consists essentially of a piece of flat stock 15 forming the bottom thereof and a border portion 16 composed of angle iron the vertical portions of which support the inclined cross-pieces 17. The uppermost cross-piece 17 is disposed between the upper horizontal portion of the border portion' 16 and the upper ends of the stra memrs 18 secured thereto. The guar 12 is mounted on the chassis portion 13 near the rear edge thereof as shown in Fi 2. The strap members 18 incline forwar ly to extend beyond the front face of the portion 13 and then rearwardly along the lower face of said portion 13, terminating just rearwardly of the rear end of the portion 13 and there provided with openings 19 to receive the rounded portions 19 of the auxiliary strap members 20 which rounded portions are threaded and extend through such openings 19 and have nuts 21 threaded thereon to secure the stra members 18 to said strap members 20. he strap members 20 extend upwardly along the rear end of the portion 13 andthen forwardly along the upper face of the flat piece 15 and then down along the upper face of the portion 13, terminating at their front ends in the rounded portions 22 that are threaded to extend through openings 22 formed in the strap members 18 adjacent to the upper face of the portion 13 to which rounded portions 22 nuts 23 are secured to secure the strap members 18 and 20 to one another and thereby anchor the guard to the portion 13. The strap members 20 are so connected to the guard 12 in the present instance that their lower ends, as shown in Fig. 2 extend down to engage the diminished portions 14 of the chassis 10 so that when the strap members 18 are secured thereto the strap members and therewith the guard 12 will be anchored against lateral displacement relative to the chassis 10.

The forwardly inclining straps 18 not only serve to brace the protective frame bu in addition serve to receive the initial shock and when so receiving the initial shock tend to draw the upper end of the protect ve frame forwardly thus to increase the resistin power of said frame.

hen the chassis 10 is provided with the belly portion 13 illustrated, no other fastening means need.be provided for the strap members 18 and 20 than those already described. However, should this chass s have an equal thickness throughout, then it may be desirable to drive rivets or screws such as the screws 24 illustrated through the strap members 20 and flat piece 15 into the chassis 10, the screws 24 also assisting the strap members 20 in securing the guard in place on the chassis 10.

From the foregoing it will be seen that if.

a. car backs into the guard, and first engages the strap members 18.near the chassis 10, the tendency of the guard 12 will be to bend away from the radiator 11. On the other hand if the initial point of contact is nearer the upper ends of the straps 18, the guard 12 will serve as a brace while the strain on the straps will be rather a tensile strain than a bending strain. On the other hand, if the point of contact is direct on the guard 12 to either sides of the straps 18, the straps 18 and 20 together with the bracin action of the contact between the guard anr chassis will combine to resist such force.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of the invention.

I claim:

1. The combination with the chassis of an automobile, of a radiator mounted on said chassis near the front end thereof, a guard in area substantially coextensive with the front face of said radiator and mounted on and secured to said chassis in front of and spaced from said radiator for protecting the same against damage from collision, said guard comprising a metal frame having transversely extending metal bars, and metal straps inclining from the upper end of said guard down to the chassis forwardly of the lower end of said frame and secured to said chassis forwardly of the lower end of said guard, said straps being adapted to rmeive the initial shock from collision with an extensive horizontal area and cooperating with said frame tending to tilt the upper end forwardly thereby to increase the resisting efficiency of said frame.

2. A guard for automobile radiators mounted on the chassis of an automobile having a horizontal portion extending parallel to said chassis, and fastening means inclinin down forwardly from the upper end of said uard and inclosing the front portion of the ciassis and said horizontal portion.

end of said guard down along 3. The combination with the chassis of an automobile, of a guard mounted on the front portion of said chassis near the rear edge thereof, a horizontal portion extending parallel to the upper face of said chassis, strap members inclining forwardly from the upper of saidfront portion and ack along the lower face of said front portion, there being openings in said first mentioned strap members adjacent to the upper face of said front ortion and adjacent to the rear end of said ront portion, auxiliary strap members extending up along the rear end of said front portion and forwardly along the upper face of said horizontal portion and the front portion of said chassis terminating at both ends in threaded rounded portions extending through the openings in said first mentioned strap members, and nuts secured to the rounded portions of said auxiliary strap members. i

4. The combination with the chassis of an automobile having a front portion enlarged at the middle thereof, of a guard mounted on said front portion and near the rear edge said uard extending along theupper face of said front portion, and fastening means inclining down forwardly from the upper end of said guard and inclosing the said front portion and said horizontal portion to either side of the enlarged portion of said front portion.

5. The combination with the chassis of an automobile having a front portion enlarged at the middle thereof, of a guard mounted the front face thereof, a horizontal portion on on said front portion and near the rear edge automobile having a front portion enlarged at the middle thereof, of a guard mounted on said front portion, a horizontal portion on said guard extending along the upper face of said front portion, and strap members extending down forwardly from the upper end of said guard and inclosing said front portion and said horizontal portion.

7. The combination with the chassis of an automobile having a front portion, of a guard mounted on said front portion, a horizontal portion on said guard disposed on said front portion at a distance removed from the front edge thereof, and strap members extending forwardly from the upper end of said guard down to said front edge and securing said horizontal portion to said front ortion.

8. e combination with the chassis of an automobile, of a radiator mounted on said chassis, a guard for protecting said radiator against damage from collision and comprising a metal protective frame mounted on the chassis a, distance removed from the front of said radiator and secured to said chassis at at distance removed from the front end of said chassis and metal straps inclinin down forwardly from the upper end of sai guard to said chassis at a point a distance removed from the lower end of the protective frame 10 and there secured to said chassis.

PERCY S. WAR-MAN.

Witnesses:

Cass. E. WHITEMAN, G. Dnsws. 

